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絢

絢

See also: 绚

Translingual

Han character

絢 (radical 120 糸+6, 12 strokes, cangjie input 女火心日 (VFPA), four-corner 27920)

  1. variegated, adorned
  2. brilliant

References

  • KangXi: page 923, character 1
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 27427
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1357, character 14
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 5, page 3395, character 6
  • Unihan data for U+7D62

Chinese

trad. 絢
simp. 绚

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 絢
Large seal script Small seal script
Characters in the same phonetic series (匀) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
枃 *skins
笉 *skʰinʔ
郇 *ɡʷreːn, *sqʰʷin
絢 *qʰʷiːns
眴 *qʰʷiːns, *ɡʷiːns, *sqʰʷin, *qʰʷjins, *ŋʷjin
盷 *ɡʷiːn
訇 *ɡʷiːn, *qʰʷreːŋ
迿 *ɡʷiːns, *sqʰʷins
姰 *ɡʷiːns, *sqʰʷin
畇 *l'iːŋ, *sqʰʷin, *sɢʷin, *ɢʷin
荀 *sqʰʷin
詢 *sqʰʷin
洵 *sqʰʷin, *sɢʷin
恂 *sqʰʷin
峋 *sqʰʷin
珣 *sqʰʷin
槆 *sqʰʷin
筍 *sqʰʷinʔ
箰 *sqʰʷinʔ
旬 *sɢʷin
殉 *sɢʷins
徇 *sɢʷins
侚 *sɢʷins
均 *kʷin
鈞 *kʷin
袀 *kʷin
汮 *kʷin, *kʷrin
呁 *kʷins
筠 *ɡʷin
荺 *ɢʷin, *ɡʷinʔ
匀 *ɢʷin
韵 *ɢʷins
輷 *qʰʷreːŋ, *qʰʷreːŋs
揈 *qʰʷreːŋ
鍧 *qʰʷreːŋ
渹 *qʰʷreːŋ
赹 *ɡʷeŋ
憌 *ɡʷeŋ
惸 *ɡʷeŋ
咰 *sqʰʷrid

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 絢
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 曉 (32)
Final (韻) 先 (86)
Tone (調) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Closed
Division (等) IV
Fanqie 許縣切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /hwenH/
Pan
Wuyun		 /hʷenH/
Shao
Rongfen		 /xuɛnH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /hwɛnH/
Li
Rong		 /xuenH/
Wang
Li		 /xiwenH/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /xiwenH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 xuàn
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 絢
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 xuàn
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ xwenH ›
Old
Chinese		 /*qʷʰˤi[n]-s/
English ornate, decorated

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter-Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
* Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
* Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;

* Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 絢
Reading # 1/1
No. 16374
Phonetic
component		 匀
Rime
group		 眞
Rime
subdivision		 1
Corresponding
MC rime		 絢
Old
Chinese		 /*qʰʷiːns/

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絢

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Japanese

Kanji

絢

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names)

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Korean

Hanja

絢 • ‎(hyeon) (hangeul 현, revised hyeon, McCune-Reischauer hyŏn, Yale hyen)

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